The ACalabash website is no longer available, so I’m storing my interview with Andy Caul, published in September 2021, here. Tell me: Who is Celia Sorhaindo? Well, that is a difficult question because I don’t know if we ever truly know who we are. We are always works in progress. I’ll start with the standard stuff. I was born in the small nature island of the Commonwealth of Dominica (often confused with the Dominican Republic). I lived here until I…
I’m excited to announce that my latest poetry collection, ABiYA, was self-published on , Amazon KDP on 24th August 2023, and I especially wanted to announce it today, 9th September 2023. i love numbers (as much as i love words) and love to observe, honour and celebrate the most significant key dates for the people in my life, even when physically passed on/over, spiritually still very much ‘in’ my life. today, 09.09.2023, would have been my father’s 91st Birthday —…
The Kahini.org website is no longer available, so I’m storing my interview with Jordan Hartt published in June 2021, here. Jordan Hartt: Thank you so much for taking the time to talk with Kahini about your work! I’d love to start with “Guabanex,” your most recent book. How did it go from initial inspiration to published work? Celia Sorhaindo: Dominica suffered a category five devastating hurricane in 2017, hurricane Maria, and it was a very traumatic time. Lots of things…
My first full length poetry collection, Radical Normalisation, was published by UK based publisher, Carcanet Press on 29th September 2022 UK (24th November 2022 USA). Radical Normalisation is an exploration into, and a pushing against, societies defined edges of what a person with a ‘normal’ mind is supposed to look, act and sound like. What does healing look like? Who gets to decide the boundaries of ‘normal’, in terms of how our brains work, what we see and experience as…
Catching up with published poems. ambergris in Rattle (Poets Respond), (Jun 2021), Chill Anomaly in Mslexia (Poet Laureate theme), (Sep-Nov Issue 2021), Thank You in Verse Daily, (Jan 2022), loss count in Magma 82, Obsidian issue, (Mar 2022), …—… in Illuminations: An International Magazine of Contemporary Writing Issue 37, (May 2022), In The Air and Free Feeling, Light Healing in student text book anthology Disaster Matters: Disasters Matter, (May 2022), 3 poems (Ouroboros, Mango Truths, Oprah’s Live Interview With Aurelius…
I was so grateful (and surprised) to have been invited in July, to virtually attend and read a few of my poems with Trinidadian writer and artist Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné, at the Festival Internacional de Poesía de Medellín 2022.…